Musicians

Vera Beths was born in Haarlem, Holland. She received her first violin lessons from her father and completed her studies at the Conservatory in Amsterdam with Herman Krebbers. At the age of 14 she won first prize at the international violin competition in Wales. In 1969 she won the first prize at the Oskar Back competition and in that same year she was awarded the Prix D’Exellence.

Vera Beths has performed as a soloist with many orchestras throughout the world with conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Kiryll Kondrashin, Edo de Waart and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. She also plays baroque violin and has soloed with Frans Br_ggen with several of his orchestra’s, including the Orchestra of The 18th Century. She also worked with Jean Fournet, Lorin Maazel, Walter Susskind and many others.

As a chamber musician she founded, together with Anner Bijlsma and Jurgen Kussmaul, the successful chamber music group Archibudelli. On gut strings and with period bows they give exciting performances of 18th and 19th century repertoire. Archibudelli has made numerous CD’s for Sony Classical Vivarte series, many of which were awarded prestigious prizes such as an Edison and several Diapason d’Ors. Vera Beths has taught at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague since 1978. She plays a Stradivarius built in 1727.